PokemonJon
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Curse you TPCI *gets banned*
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...I think we can all agree...
Curse you TPIC! *gets banned*
In my experience you're totally wrong on that one. The threat of big lawsuits have kept most "professional" companies from saying anything to employees other than that they are terminated. It's a much much safer play for them as a company to say nothing at all (which they legally are allowed to do) than to give anything at all that can be held against them at a later time.
The Turkish Petroleum International Company will probably be really angry with you, yes.
Especially as they have nothing to do with any of this.
Yahoo! said:Dear Yahoo! Fantasy Users,
I want to sincerely apologize to all of you about today's Yahoo! Sports Fantasy outage. As the head of Yahoo! Sports and as a Yahoo! Sports fantasy player myself, I am disappointed that we failed all of our fans today. Our first priority is having the best experience for our users, and today we fell short.
The outage started around Noon ET (awful timing we know) and while our team was on it immediately we are still working on various pieces. Our team is continuing to work on identifying and resolving the root cause. We have restored full functionality on the website, and we're working for a final fix for our mobile apps. Currently data and scores can be viewed but for now you cannot make transactions or change line-ups from the apps.
We will also use today as an opportunity to improve our set-up so that we hopefully never have an outage like this again. Our fantasy commissioners and players are our biggest priority - we pride ourselves in being able to offer our users with the best fantasy sports experience possible and we take our job to deliver that to you very seriously. Rest assured we will work hard to make sure we continue to deliver on that commitment.
Thanks for playing with us and your patience today,
Ken Fuchs
Head of Yahoo! Sports
Yahoo! said:Dear Yahoo! Fantasy Users,
As I mentioned in my earlier email, Yahoo! works hard to provide great experiences for our users every day. For you, we understand that Fantasy is a core part of your daily routine during this time of year. On Sunday we experienced technical issues which caused the Fantasy experience to be inaccessible. We're sorry. Our entire team worked tirelessly to re-establish the service - however, we had a significant outage. We know this created inconvenience and frustration for millions of our fans, and we feel we owe you an explanation.
So what happened? At Yahoo!, we have giant machines called "filers" that process a lot of the real-time data and stats for us and for you. We do millions of calculations every hour for our games, and normally our machines can handle this with no problem. Recently, we discovered a hardware issue in one of the filers that caused the other one to overload. We replaced some hardware, re-configured the setup, and did some testing. However this Sunday - at approximately 12:15 p.m. Eastern - the new configuration failed. This created an overload on storage capacity and took the Fantasy part of our site down.
We had dozens of engineers from various teams working together to try to determine the cause and fix it. One option was to fall back on another data center, but that would have meant shutting the game down and losing scoring data. We wanted to avoid that at all costs. Ultimately, we were able to move our mobile apps to a back-up data center, free up storage to get the PC version of the game working, and get the mobile apps up in a "read-only" state - meaning you could see scores and data, but you still couldn't set lineups and interact.
We spent Sunday night and most of Monday looking at dozens of potential causes. Monday afternoon, we stress-tested our system. Everything seemed to be in working order, so we turned on all our mobile app functions in time for Monday Night Football. Everything performed as expected and continues to do so. We'll have all hands on deck this coming Sunday to closely monitor performance and ensure we can respond quickly in case of any abnormal activity.
We know many of you have questions about your leagues and games, so we've also set up a FAQ here that will explain how we are going to handle various scenarios.
Finally, we know we failed you this weekend, and there's no way to fix that. As a token of our appreciation for your patience and continued support, we wanted to give something back. First, we're offering a complimentary football weekly Scouting Report for the remainder of the year. Hopefully this will help you down the stretch. The report includes weekly expert analysis, rankings and news to help you make smart decisions. Second, we are offering all our users a 20% discount for the rest the year at the Yahoo! Sports Store.
For any updates, we will keep you informed on @YahooSports and facebook.com/yahoosports.
We won't stop working to provide you with new and improved features that help you enjoy your Sundays.
Thanks again for playing and for your patience.
Best,
Ken Fuchs
Head of Yahoo! Sports
Is this the reason there is 0 Cities in Georgia? Man just when I'm trying to get into the TCG
no, as banned from the 'gym =/= banned from OP, and vice-versa.Just curious if a person like Gary is banned does this also result in him not being able to post here on PokeGym?
Is this the reason there is 0 Cities in Georgia? Man just when I'm trying to get into the TCG
dont worry theres no cities in ky either and our pto isnt banned
Wow. It took a long time to read this thread... lol
I have seen situations like this in other contexts.
I'm involved in local government and this is eerily similar to a "closed session" situation regarding personnel matters.
My immediate reaction to this was "uh oh..."
If, in fact, there was a BAN (a VERY serious consequence) without specific notification. Then, there are two possibilities that come to mind:
1. There's a mistake (computer-induced error or someone banned the wrong "Gary"). or...
2. This is something that we'd be better-off NOT knowing about (that could even have legal ramifications).
So, for all we know, TPCi could be doing EXACTLY what they should be doing.
Ryan stated that Gary is a very active and respected TO within the Pokemon Community that has done great things to grow and promote the game.
I would submit that it for THIS reason that the ban and its proceedings remain a private enterprise between the two parties previously acknowledged in this discussion.
Think about it. Why would someone so good for the game be banned? Do you REALLY want to know the answer to this?
I don't. Ignorance is bliss in this circumstance.
JMHO.
RA